Prolific poet, essayist, and short story writer, Arturo Islas (19381991) is well known for his two insightful novels, The Rain God and Migrant Souls. His untimely death to AIDS truncated a productive and influential career that has left an unbridgeable gap in Latino letters.
Islas was a dedicated, thoughtful, and style-conscious writer, who promoted a sense of responsibility to community and art for both writers and critics. The quality of his commitment was matched by the example he set in delving into the esthetics and psychology of gay creativity, an exploration that took him to uncompromising confrontations with his own traditional upbringing. Islas has made his mark as a writer of the U.S.-Mexico border and a leader at the forefront of exploration of more social, psychological and philosophical boundaries. As a Chicano from El Paso, and a gay Latino writer, Islas surmounted many boundaries, borders and established roles.
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Bibliography
- Early Fictions
- Orejas de papalote (Fall 1957)
- A Boy with the Eyes of a Fawn (Fall 1957)
- The Submarine (Fall 1957)
- Poor Little Lamb (Fall 1957)
- Clara Mendoza (1957)
- An Existential Documentation
- The Face of Our Soul (Fall 1959)
- Dear Arturo (Fictionalized epistle, 1962)
- The Loneliest Man in the World
- Tía Chucha (January 1970)
- The Dead (Circa 1974)
- Reason’s Mirror or The Educationof Miguel Angel
- Nina
- María
- Compadres y comadres
- La familia feliz
- Kokkomaa
- The Loneliest Man in the World
- Poetry
- Untitled Early Poetry
- Cuauhtémoc’s Grave
- Obsession
- A Cock
- Palace of Your Body
- Aztec Angel
- Sleeping on Poppies
- Morning in Finland
- Flight Delay
- Desire
- The Island
- A Poem in the Manner of Emily Dickinson
- You Will be Another Pacific Island
- Bondage & Discipline
- Moonshine
- Drunk
- Ambush
- For E.H.
- Motherfucker or the Exile
- Hostility
- Colette’s Friend
- Losing You
- In the Dark
- Mishima
- Lost My Mind
- The Meeting of Saint Anthony and Saint Paul
- Blueboy
- Metroliner
- Guilt
- Skins
- Scat Bag
- Dancing with Ghosts
- Cliché
- Medea on the Hudson
- Closet Song
- Bo Peep
- Faggots
- Algol/Algolagnia
- Nelly and Butch: A Song
- Cheap Song
- On Gin Considered a Demon
- Swallow
- Light
- Mantra
- Resident Fellow I
- Video Songs
- Nirvana
- Island Poem I. Floating before the fall
- Essays & Lectures on Chicano literature
- Can There Be Chicano Fiction or Writer’s Block?
- Saints, Artists, and Vile Politics (excerpt)
- Richard Rodriguez: Autobiography as Self-denial
- On the Bridge, At the Border: Migrants and Immigrants
- Chronology of Major Events in Arturo Islas’s Life
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